The Eclectic Tech Carnival: The Eclectic Tech Carnival is a gathering of women interested in technology. It's held once a year, each time in a venue where there is an interest in it. The first was in Pula, Croatia in 2002. Its roots are in the Gender Changers hardware and FLOSS courses. Women from all over the world organise the /etc through mailing lists, IRC and IRL meetings - and women come from all over the world to the /etc itself. The week-long carnival includes workshops on installing open source and free software, looking at Linux, building websites, other chat and conferencing software like GAIM, Jabber and Gnomemeeting. In addition there are art exhibitions and cultural presentations. This year, the fourth Eclectic Tech Carnival will take place in Graz, Austria, July 11-15. Link genderchangers
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]